What do you hope to achieve with your forum?

Some admins do it just for the love of the topic, others hope to get recognition or career advancement, still others hope to make a living off their sites. What goal do you hope to achieve with your forum(s)?

 

Honestly, for this site, my main reason is for the passion and dedication to the topic. Other administrators in this niche seem to be in it for monetary compensation, but I do it for the love I have of interacting with the community.

I like being able to help people where possible and give advice on subject matter that I happen to know fairly well. It's a great feeling to know that I am able to provide a resource to those who seek it.

My ultimate goal is to be the leading website in my niche with a happy and active community. I want my site to be the one that people recommend when their friends ask where they should go for advice on this niche's subject matter.

I just want to be able to say, "Wow, I successfully created this wonderful place for community administrators to congregate and collaborate."

 

Ideally, I'd like to achieve the following:

A Sense of Community

While there are a wide (and vast) variety of discussion forums on the web today, only a small percentage of them can honestly say that they've achieved a successful "sense of community" among members. By this, I am of course referring to the various social interactions that take place and abilities among the entire memberbase of a discussion community. It's very rare (and difficult) to meet such a socially-friendly level on a discussion community - regardless of the size and/or activity level - but hell, it's worth a shot. If your members are happy, your community should thrive. If your members are dissatisfied, the chance of your community thriving is severely decreased.

I feel like we've successfully reached a sense of community here at AA.

 

With my designs site, I had hoped to create an outlet for my designing talents while providing the vB community with stylishly simple vBulletin themes. Having achieved that, I then hoped to acquire a small and semi-steady income by providing custom styles. I have also reached that goal.

With Rush Hour Madness, I just hope to have fun and meet new people. We'll see how that works out.

 

With Pisoga I attempted to be the difference, but at the moment I can't even try.

With Setsou I want to be original, I want to be unique~ I want to learn more so I can do more. I want for people to love art as much as I do and find the beauty in it! My friend was never an artist or a lover of graphic designing. But when I show him my work he tells me "You made me fall in love with art, now that I go to every webpage I think what could be re-done or what pages are magnificently made"

I may be dreaming.

 

With my site - I hope to just stay intouch with the sporting community, due to my injuries I can no longer play - and so wish that I can have a successful community where Australian Sport Fans can have a nice place to come and chat about everything sport.

I hope to be different to the mainstream websites run by giant media outlets who are in contractual arrangements with sporting clubs and associations and as a result post biased news reports and reviews - I want to speak how it is seen by the sports fans.

I have already benifited from my website gaining media accreditation for a number of major sporting events in australia and have already spoken to a number of my childhood sporting heroes.

Sure it would be good to get some cash outta the site I have spent so much on but it would be reinvested back into the network so I can expand and grow better and never know maybe in the future earn enough to sponsor a junior sport club so I am actively invovled.

On my website at the moment 50% of all donations are then donated to BeyondBlue which is a depression charity here in Australia as depression is something I have suffered from in the past (when I was told I wasn't able to play sport any more) and so the subject is something close to me and so when donations are made 50% is put back into the website and 50% is donated to the charity from the members of the Sports Force Interactive members!

 

I'll be honest. My sites are used to parlay my way to a better way of life through income. I have several sites but only one community at this time. Each site is a topic that I am passionate about and I have domains and plans for several others but ultimately they are to make it easier for me to make money. Which they do indirectly even though none make me money directly at this time.

Though each site exists to better my life, they give real information on the topic and provide information and help to others as well.

 

When we started our live music forum, people thought we were elitists because we had so many requirements, but we were trying to bring up the quality in trading of live music. There was a lot of trashed stuff out there cuz so many people had no clue what they were doing when they tried to share stuff. We required full lineage on all shows, absolutely no mp3 sourced junk, and the fingerprints to go along with every show (specific types of fingerprints also - so we had to teach people how to give us the kind we wanted). I'm happy to say that just about every live music site like ours now requires fingerprints and most ask for lineage also. It took a while, many thought we would never survive with the requirement we had, but it was worth pushing for it!

 

Same Here Chris, But I Prefer A Site For Gamers, Which I Already Own.
14 Members :o Its Growing Slowly, But I Hope Soon To Be The Best Gamer
Site, Just Like The Site That Got Defaced, A Big Site Im Looking Forward To.